The perfect sovereign: The sacralized power of the Ottoman sultan

Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 183-210

  Fosshagen, Kjetil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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